MASTER THESIS: rofessor Chen Chien-liang has said that the student used some of his work in her paper, but the academics credited the student for the use of a chart
TaIpei Times
Date: Jan 26, 2018
By: Ann Maxon / Staff reporter
National Taiwan University (NTU) president-elect Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔) has been
National Taiwan University president-elect Kuan Chung-ming speaks in Taipei on Jan. 7. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
accused of plagiarizing a students paper in a conference paper he coauthored with National Chi Nan University professor Chen Chien-liang (陳建良), Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chang Liao Wan-chien (張廖萬堅) told a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
The paper, entitled “An Empirical Study of the Effect of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement on Exports” was presented at a conference held by the Academia Sinica Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and the NTU Department of Economics on May 6 last year and published in its conference documents.
“The paper contains many sentences and charts that are almost identical to those in a thesis titled ‘The Impact of ECFA Early Harvest on Taiwan’s Export to China: Analysis by Difference-In-Differences Model,’ written by Chen’s student in July 2016,” he said, adding that Chen was the student’s thesis adviser. [FULL STORY]